NPPF Canto 4 - Our Cream

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 12 13:02:55 CDT 2003


--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> John Shade is a versipellis. The Cream is an ointment used in the
transformation from man to beast. It makes those hairs stand on end.  Nature is
glued to him.

Is the beast Kinbote?  If so you are remakably close to Carolyn Kunin's
(prominent N-lister) Jekyll & Hyde (animal-skin?) theory.  And for her, Shade's
sexually abuse is also the cause, but not by Maud, though she was somehow
involved.  I've held off asking her any details for fear of spoiling the game. 
I'll wait till the end of this NPPF.

David Morris

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